Report of Cover Up: Illegal Immigrant Children Have Scabies and Lice Running Down Their Faces (Video)

"My sources inside a camp for illegals at Lackland Air Force Base say it's one giant emergency room. They tell me tuberculosis has become a
very dangerous issue there. Now nurses say the number of
children presenting with symptoms of tuberculosis is simply staggering. Spitting up blood, chest pains, constant coughing just some
up the symptoms. There are at least three confirmed cases at a
facility for illegals in Austin Texas.

Now we've also learned that nurses
and other health care workers are telling us that the federal government, the federal
government, is covering up the extent of the health crisis. They say kids have scabies. They also say
they have chicken pox in an all-out epidemic of lice so severe, they say the
bugs can be seen crawling down the faces of the children."

Immigrant illness: What you need to know about scabies and tuberculosis

According to a recent claim from a Border Control union, illegal
immigrants are coming into the United States with “active scabies and
other illnesses,” while reports have surfaced from a camp in San Antonio
of a tuberculosis infection. While common in other areas of the world,
these two infections aren’t frequently seen in the U.S.Scabies are a mite-type parasite that burrow under the skin, leading
to itchiness and skin eruptions. Typically they’re found by looking
between the fingers, where they often burrow, but they can spread over
the entire body.Symptoms typically begin three to six weeks after infestation, and
the disease can be treated with either oral or topical medication to
kill the insects. Seven to 14 days after the first dosage, medication
must be administered again to ensure the mites are eradicated.The disease is not very common in the U.S., but has been found in homeless populations.“It’s usually associated with poor housing, poor socioeconomic
status, hygiene issues; think about people living in a crowded place for
a long time,” Dr. Olveen Carrasquillo, an associate professor of
medicine and chief of division of general internal medicine at the
University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine, told FoxNews.com.While scabies does spread person-to-person, it’s more common in populations with very close contact.“Basically it comes down to the chance of exposure to someone who has
scabies, where the mite can crawl from one person to another through
direct physical contact,” Dr. David Smith of the Center of Infectious
Disease Excellence in Flowood, Miss., told FoxNews.com. “Not unless you
have really close physical contact with the [infected] person, sleeping
in the same bed, living in the same household—it requires really close
physical contact.”According to Smith, there are about 300 million cases of scabies
worldwide, but the condition is not highly reported, so there isn’t
always reliable data.Tuberculosis in the U.S.?Another infectious disease of concern is tuberculosis (TB), which is
caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria. While the bacteria mostly
attack the lungs, they can attack any part of the body, including the
brain. Active TB is spread person-to person by droplets that an infected
person expels when coughing. The droplets go into the lungs and take
weeks – or even months – to grow.Active TB is highly contagious and requires isolation and multi-drug
treatments that take between 12 and 24 months to complete. Symptoms
include coughing, weight loss, night sweats and blood-streaked mucous.
Doctors use chest X-rays, a blood test or a skin test to diagnose the
disease.Like scabies, contact with infected individuals increases a person’s risk for contracting the disease.“The closer one is, the more time spent in continuity [to an infected person], the more likely you are to get it,” Smith said.With immigrants coming from high-risk countries, most of them have
latent TB, said Carrasquillo, who specializes in minority health. This
occurs when the disease remains in certain lung cavities but is not
infectious. It’s typically detected by a chest X-ray and a sputum
(mucous) exam. Patients are treated with medication preventatively for
six months, in order to reduce the risk of their TB becoming active.Little is known about how latent TB becomes active TB, Carrasquillo
noted, but diagnosing and treating the latent form can prevent
activation.Distinguishing between active and latent TB can be difficult, Smith said.“It’s one of the most complicated diseases of all time,” he said.